Brillante Mendoza’s Ma’ Rosa will be shown in Iloilo

December 13, 2016

SM City Iloilowill launch the
Brillante Mendoza Film Festival (BMFF),which will feature
the International Award-Winning Film- MaRosa this coming December 15, 2016, 4
pm, at SM City Iloilo Northpoint. It will be followed by a film screening of
Ma’ Rosa on December 16, 2016 at SM Iloilo Cinema 6 and 7, 8 am.

The film is about ROSA, who owns a
small community convenient store connected to their home in the slums of
Metropolitan Manila. Together with her husband, NESTOR, they use their
convenient store as cover-up for selling illegal narcotic, Methamphetamines.
Their fate changes when their neighbor sets them up for a police raid leading
to the couple’s arrest - a ploy for extortion. Backed against the wall, Rosa
seeks help from her children, JACKSON, RAQUEL, and KERWIN as they do the
daunting task to buy their parent’s freedom.

“The idea of this film came up four
years ago when I became indirectly involved with the said incident. It captures
my interest to tell this story because it shows a unique but also disturbing
characteristic of a common Filipino family. That when a family member is backed
against the wall for the wrong doings that he or she made, you will do
everything to keep them out of trouble even if it means violating basic
virtuous. In a society where survival of the fittest is a fact that we have to
live with, family becomes amoral,” says Mendoza.

Ma’ Rosa is one of the films that
competed in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. It garnered the Best Actress award
for Jaclyn Jose and Best Director for the 54th Gijon Film Festival.
The fans of Brillante Mendoza will have a chance to meet and greet with the
renowned Director. They will also have a chance to ask him about his latest
film.

Brillante Ma. Mendoza started as a
production designer in various films and television advertisements. His debut
film, Masahista (The Masseur) won the Golden Leopard Award at the 2005 Locarno
International Film Festival, and paved the way for the rise of alternative cinema
in the Philippines.

In 2005, he founded Center Stage
Productions (CSP), an independent film production company. Mendoza continues to
make films and documentaries that depict the lives of the Filipinos and the
marginalized sectors of society, cultivating an audience for alternative cinema
in the Philippines. His films are shown in different schools all over the
country. Brillante Mendoza is the first Filipino director to be honored by
France with the title Chevalier dansl’Ordre des Arts etLettres.

For more
information of the Brillante Mendoza Film Festival, you may contact Mr. Troy
Camarista, Public Relations Manager of SM City Iloilo, at 320 9609 local 128.